Kitchen-cabinet



(No ModeL) M. H. GARD 8v J. PLACE.

` KITCHEN CABINET.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,766, date-dv December 8l 1385.

Application led November 24, ISS- i. Serial No. A143,752.- (No model.)

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Be it known that we, MILES H. GARD and JOSEPH PLAGE, residents of Freeport, inthe county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Kitchen-Cabinets; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in kitchen-cabinets, and is fully described and explained in the following specification and shown in the` accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of the cabinet, the cover being thrown back, the sifter in working position, and a part of the front of the cabinet broken away to show shelving within; Fig. 2, a top plan of the cabinet, the cover being thrown back and the sifter being dropped down in position for closing the cover; Fig. 3, an end elevation of the cabinet, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow a, Fig. 1, a portion of the end of the cabinet being broken away to show position of flour-sitter when down; Fig. 4., a vertical section of the cabinet through the line a; y, Fig. l, the View being in the direction indicated by the arrow a., Fig. 1.

In these views, A is the front, A are the ends, and A is the back, of a cabinet or cupboard of any desired proportions and dimensions. The front consists of one central and two end strips, and two doors which ll the spaces between the strips on either side. The strips and doors forming the front are considerably lower than the ends and back of the cabinet, and immediately above them is a horizontal shelf, S', running back about one-third of the depth of the cabinet and butting against a vertical partition, p, whose upper edge is slightly below the top of the cabinet, while its lower edge rests on a horizontal shell", S, lying below the narrow shelf S', and extending from front to back of the cabinet. Below the shelf S, which supports the partition p, are other shelves S, whose number and position may be varied atpleasure. To the upper rear edge of the cabinet is hinged a cover, L, provided with an apron, I, adapted to cover the space above the doors when the cover is closed, and

a swinging bracket, M, on the back of the cabinet supports the cover lwhen open. The

space in the front of the partition p may be tray for the reception of a flour-sitter when not in use.

The sifter shown in the drawings consists of a rectangular box, G, supported by a staff, F, and having a bottom which is a segment of a cylinder, and a wire sifteror agitator, H, pivoted to the boX and oscillating about an axis coincident with the axis of the perforated cylindrical bottom thereof. A hole, K, in the partition .I receives the staff F, and thus supports the sifter above the cabinet when in Working position, and a similar hole in the bottom ofthesifter-tray receives the staff when the siiter is not in use.

The details of construction and operation of the sitter proper are not material or essential, the substance of our invention, so iar as that feature'is concerned, being the combination, with a sifter of any operative form and astaii' rigidly fastened thereto, of a cabinet provided with a chamber adapted to receive the sifter when not in use, and having two staff-receiving sockets, one in the sitter-chamber and one in the upper part of the cabinet, the socket in the sifter-chamber being adapted to receive the staff when the sifter is not in use, and the other socket being adapted to receive and support the staff when the sifter is in working position.

On the inner faces of the ends A of the cabinet, and near the upper edges thereof, are two opposite cleats, C C, each of which has on its inner face a groove for the reception of asliding bread-board, B. The cleats C C are hung on pivoted links O O, arranged as shown in Fig. 4, each cleat being supported by two parallel links, by means of which it may be swung forward from the position shown in Fig. 4 to any desired position within the limitof motion of the links. In moving from the position shown iu full lines in Fig. 4 to that shown in dotted lines the cleats rise, and in advancing still farther they gradually descend to their former level. As they may be held stationary IOO in any desired position, and the bread-board moved back or forward in the grooves of the bining various arrangements of shelves, iiourboxes, pigeon-holes, and other compartments are already well known. We do not therefore claim, broadly, the invention of such anv article of kitchen-furniture.

We are further aware that it is old in structures of various kinds to provide a horizontal shelf, top, or cover with supporting-links by means of which it may be given a combined vertical and horizontal movement, such movement being, however, always limited to oscillation about the stationary pivotal centers of the links. Ours is, however, so far as we know, the first machine or structure of its class in which a horizontal shelf has been combined with horizontal cleats or guides in which it slides, and at the same time the cleats have been provided with supporting-links adapted to permit combined vertical and horizontal motion of the cleats. The use of links alone with our shelf or bread-board would not be sufficient, since it is often necessary to give the board a horizontal adjustment without moving it either up or down. In fact, the combination of the board, the cleats, and the links affords an exceedingly simple and convenient means of adjusting the bread-board either horizontally or vertically.

Having, however, described and explained our invention, what we do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a kitchen-cabinet, the combination, with the sides thereof, of two opposite verticallyadjustable cleats and a bread-board supported by said cleats and free to slide back and forth on or in said cleats. y

Invtestirnony whereof we have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib". ing witnesses. l

MILES H. CARD. JOSEPH PLACE.-

Witnesses:

L. M. CURRrER, J. A. GRAIN. 

